"This was all an excuse, I think. I was doing fine. (…) I had good friends and a loving family. And because I needed to be the center of attention, because I needed something more, I ended up here, wallowing in myself, trying to convince everybody around me that I have some kind of…disease.
I don’t have any disease. I keep pacing. Depression isn’t a disease. It’s a pretext for being a prima donna. Everybody knows that."
— It’s Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini
"Why hide what you’ve been through?"
— It’s Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini
"I work, Monica, and I think about work, and I freak out about work, and I think about how much I think about work, and I freak out about how much I think how much I think about work, and I think about how freaked out I get about how much I think about how much I think about work…Does that count as a hobby?"
— It’s Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini
"So why am I depressed? That’s the million dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even the owl knows the answer to that one. I don’t know either. All I know is the chronology."
— It’s Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini
"My family shouldn’t have to put up with me."
— It’s Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini
"I’m going to go home and freak out. I’m going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what’s wrong. I’m going to try and eat. Then I’m going to try and sleep. I dread it. I can’t eat and I can’t sleep. I’m not going well in terms of being a functional human, you know?"
— It’s Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini
"And I always look like I’m about to cry.
I put on the hot water and splash it at my face to feel something. In a few seconds I’m going to have to go back and face the crowd. But I can sit in the dark on the toilet a little more, can’t I? I always manage to make a trip to the bathroom take five minutes."
— It’s Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini
"I’m not better, you know. The weight hasn’t left my head. I feel how easily I could fall back into it, lie down and not eat, waste my time and curse wasting my time, look at my homework and freak out and go chill at Aaron’s, look at Nia and be jealous again, take the subway home and hope that it had an accident, go and get my bike and head to the Brooklyn Bridge. All of that is still there. The only thing is, it’s not an option now. It’s just…a possibility, like it’s a possibility that I could turn to dust in the next instant and be disseminated throughout the universe as an omniscient consciousness. It’s not a very likely possibility."
— It’s Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini
"Everybody has problems. Some people just hide their crap better than others. But people aren’t going to look at you and run away. They’re going to look at you and think that they can talk to you, and that you’ll understand, and that you’re brave, and that you’re strong. And you are. You’re brave and strong."
— It’s Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini
"They like you and they genuinely want you to do better, but when they shake your hand you feel that distance, that slight disconnect because they know that you’re still broken somewhere, that you might snap at any moment."
— It’s Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini
